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bool3max··on We're bringing Pebble back
I recently picked up the entry-level Forerunner 55 as my first ever "smart watch" and its lack of touch-screen controls and the 5 tactile buttons are my favorite things about it.
bool3max··on Firenvim – Turn the browser into a Neovim client
I appreciate all the work you and other maintainers put into Tridactyl as it’s the best extension of its kind so far. That being said Vim-in-the-browser still sucks to this day, especially with so many webapp sites that hijack browser shortcuts and never play nice with F-navigation.

Is there a way to completely disable all regular browser shortcuts as well as all key event propagation to the sites themselves, and make Tridactyl the be-all-end-all handler for the keyboard?

bool3max··on They see your photos
I find that hard to believe. Which browser intentionally tampers with images before they are uploaded, especially in such a destructive manner?
bool3max··on Dear OAuth Providers
A penny or two I'd understand but I think even that'd be wrong, but a dollar or two? Absolutely false.
bool3max··on Hiroshi Nagai: Japan's Sun-Drenched Americana
You’ve never resonated with a movie, a song, or a TV episode?
bool3max··on MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
How the hell is this not already a CSS feature?

    font-size: "as-big-as-possible-while-still-fitting-parent-container";
or maybe just

    font-size: max;
bool3max··on Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google
I never go to IMDb directly as both it and its search function are noticeably slower than Google’s. So I just tend to Google “<movie name> IMDb” and click the first result.
bool3max··on Blog Writing for Developers (2023)
Hugo!
bool3max··on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
Touchscreens certainly have their place, for example in general purpose devices such as smartphones, but the idiotic cost-saving movement of putting them anywhere and everywhere as replacements of traditional, well-designed interfaces such as those in vehicles is absurd.
bool3max··on Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
I mean considering the value you'd get out of a single monitor compared to a single light bulb, I'd say yes.
bool3max··on Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation
FREE and OFFLINE and OPEN SOURCE and REAL-TIME on UNDER-POWERED devices?
bool3max··on How long til we're all on Ozempic?
Yes a scientific consensus for these things would be nice, but in a world where manufacturers of such poisonous garbage control so much of the “science” and research space, can you ever really hope for an honest and realistic one? No.
bool3max··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
That issue exists in the context of all other novel "social media" careers as well.
bool3max··on The Modern CLI Renaissance
This was all bound to happen anyway if not due to the "Web" then due to some other platform that would've evolved the same capabilities eventually.
bool3max··on Ask HN: How do you sync ongoing browser work between desktop and laptop?
One of Firefox's best features, works seamlessly across 5 devices.
bool3max··on The Monospace Web
Nope, nope, and nope. Unless you are presenting code or some data in a tabular format, or require even spacing for some other reason, please don’t use a monospace font.
bool3max··on Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment
Off-topic but the font on this blog is stunning - after some digging it seems to be "Vollkorn".
bool3max··on Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?
I guess the question mark at the end makes it weird, with a period it would make more sense, to me.

Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend(.) ---> the article explains why Vivaldi will not follow the trend.

Why (won't) Vivaldi follow the current AI trend(?) ---> someone's wondering and asking why Vivaldi will not follow the trend.

bool3max··on Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 3000%
Towards the end of the article, what does the author mean by "sentinel errors are expensive to construct"? Aren't they called sentinel errors because they are constructed only once?
bool3max··on HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal client
Go code has a tendency to look the same no matter who writes it.
bool3max··on WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
For Linux there's QDirStat: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
bool3max··on Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught
Lol, stop making stuff up.
bool3max··on How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?
This is pretty clever but admittedly this type of incremental search was never intuitive to me - I don't like that I can't see the current contents of the search buffer, which is always problematic if I make mistake when searching for something. Give me a textbox and fuzzy search.
bool3max··on Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website
Dashes ("-") have a bad reputation when it comes to domain names. How many official domain names for big established products can you think of that have dashes in the domain?
bool3max··on Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)
What does "provably efficient" mean?
bool3max··on Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio
Why would you expect an LLM to answer thoe questions correctly?
bool3max··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
> I don't understand this. If people don't want to or need to buy anything and they don't want to see ads, because this is pure simply a distraction and won't sway them into buying anything, then what is the point of forcing them to watch ads?

Age-old question. It's not that simple. Those ads have an effect on you whether you "want to or need to buy anything" or not.

bool3max··on Monaspace
Feels very hacky.
bool3max··on Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
I've had the main tab bar disabled for a few years now via some CSS tweak, so it's possible.
bool3max··on Nobody cares about your blog
None of your posts are loading for me.
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